Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works eBook

HYMN.

At morn—­at noon—­at
twilight dim—­
Maria! thou hast heard my hymn!
In joy and wo—­in good and ill—­
Mother of God, be with me still!
When the Hours flew brightly by,
And not a cloud obscured the sky,
My soul, lest it should truant be,
Thy grace did guide to thine and thee
Now, when storms of Fate o’ercast
Darkly my Present and my Past,
Let my future radiant shine
With sweet hopes of thee and thine!

1885.

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NOTES.

20. LENORE

“Lenore” was published, very nearly in
its existing shape, in ’The Pioneer’ for
1843, but under the title of “The Paean”—­now
first published in the POEMS OF YOUTH—­the
germ of it appeared in 1831.

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21. TO ONE IN PARADISE

“To One in Paradise” was included originally
in “The Visionary” (a tale now known as
“The Assignation"), in July, 1835, and appeared
as a separate poem entitled “To Ianthe in Heaven,”
in Burton’s ’Gentleman’s Magazine’
for July, 1839. The fifth stanza is now added,
for the first time, to the piece.

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22. THE COLISEUM

“The Coliseum” appeared in the Baltimore
‘Saturday Visitor’ (’sic’)
in 1833, and was republished in the ‘Southern
Literary Messenger’ for August 1835, as “A
Prize Poem.”

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23. THE HAUNTED PALACE

“The Haunted Palace” originally issued
in the Baltimore ’American Museum’ for
April, 1888, was subsequently embodied in that much
admired tale, “The Fall of the House of Usher,”
and published in it in Burton’s ‘Gentleman’s
Magazine’ for September, 1839. It reappeared
in that as a separate poem in the 1845 edition of
Poe’s poems.

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24. THE CONQUEROR WORM

“The Conqueror Worm,” then contained in
Poe’s favorite tale of “Ligeia,”
was first published in the ‘American Museum’
for September, 1838. As a separate poem, it reappeared
in ‘Graham’s Magazine’ for January,
1843.

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25. SILENCE

The sonnet, “Silence,” was originally
published in Burton’s ’Gentleman’s
Magazine’ for April, 1840.

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26. DREAMLAND

The first known publication of “Dreamland”
was in ‘Graham’s Magazine’ for June,
1844.

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37. TO ZANTE

The “Sonnet to Zante” is not discoverable
earlier than January, 1837, when it appeared in the
‘Southern Literary Messenger’.